Rest in Peace CRAIG MACK. Long Island's own. We were proud of Craig when he came out with the little indie song as MC EZ & TROUP. Then a few years later he went on to make one of the biggest most iconic songs in Hip Hop history. Rest EZ. Never forgotten. We love ya bro

This was the first song by CRAIG MACK that I heard on the radio as a kid. I was in school the next day like "Yo! they're playing Craig on the radio, He's from Brentwood and he made it" and not to mention my legendary brother @DJDIAMOND on the turntableshttps://t.co/xyQgK5pfXe

Craig Mack, the Long Island rapper who found fame on Sean “Diddy” Combs’ Bad Boy Records in the mid-1990s, has died at age 46, his producer confirmed to the Daily News. Mack — who launched to hip-hop acclaim with the platinum hit “Flava in Ya Ear” in 1994 before being overshadowed by fellow artists such as the Notorious B.I.G. — died of heart failure at a hospital near his Walterboro, S.C., home Monday. (New York Daily News)

The Long Island, N.Y, native at one time was part of Diddy’s Bad Boy Entertainment, which released his first album, Project: Funk da World, anchored by Flava in Ya Ear, which was nominated for a Grammy. His follow-up single, Get Down went gold. After Mack left Diddy, he released a second album, Operation: Get Down in 1997 but left the music industry and devoted his life to religion. (USA Today)